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Artwork from three San Antonio artists exhibiting at this year's Dragon*Con (l to r): John Picacio, Jason Limon, & Mike Fisher. Three San Antonio artists — John Picacio, Jason Limon, and Mike Fisher — will be exhibiting their art and works at this year’s Dragon*Con in Atlanta, September 3-6. Picacio will be a featured artist in the [Read it all...] The 2010 World Fantasy Award nominees in the Artist category (L to R): John Jude Palencar, John Picacio, Charles Vess, Sam Weber, & Jason Zerrillo. The 2010 World Fantasy Awards nominees have been announced. Winners will be announced in Columbus, Ohio at the World Fantasy Convention, October 28-31, 2010. San Antonio’s John Picacio is one [Read it all...]
Details from several 2010 Chesley Award-winning works. (Top row, L to R:) Art by Matthew Stewart; art by Lucas Graciano. (Middle row, L to R:) Art by John Picacio; art by Raoul Vitale. (Bottom row, L to R:) Art by Justin Gerard; art by Vincent Villafranca. The 2010 Chesley Awards winners were announced at the [Read it all...] Cover illustration by John Picacio for Michael Moorcock's forthcoming ELRIC: SWORDS & ROSES (Ballantine/Del Rey). Here’s my cover illustration for Ballantine/Del Rey’s forthcoming edition of Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC: SWORDS & ROSES. It contains Moorcock’s full-length Elric novel, THE REVENGE OF THE ROSE, his novella “Black Petals” as well as several bonus goodies. Tad Williams contributes [Read it all...] John Picacio artwork featured on the forthcoming UK edition of a major artbook called SCI-FI ART NOW, edited by John Freeman. Coming October 2010! I received great news this week — one of my artworks has been selected as the forthcoming cover of the UK edition of SCI-FI ART NOW. This is a major artbook [Read it all...] Every newspaper, magazine and blog seems to be running a summer reading list right about now. So who needs another one? You do, friends. How many, we ask, are going to be as chock-full of geeky and creepy goodness as ours? John Picacio “Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly Just finished reading a short story by Nebula [Read it all...] Cover artwork by John Picacio for L.E. Modesitt Jr.'s collection VIEWPOINTS CRITICAL (Tor). Last week, I was interviewed by musician/blogger John Anealio and author/blogger Patrick Hester, who together form The Functional Nerds podcast. The two describe their show as a “new podcast…focusing on science fiction and fantasy media: television, film, comics; and new media such [Read it all...] The new Jonah Hex movie shoots up the big screen this weekend and that got us thinking about one of our favorite SF subgenres…the Weird Western. San Antonio and South Texas have borne witness to hundreds of years of western weirdness so we decided to ask about your favorite Weird Western: book, movie, comic whatever. We [Read it all...] Your humble missionaries don’t just love SF and Fantasy…we love music too. And we especially love it when these two worlds collide. We’ve run articles before about our favorite SF album cover art and turned up many of the usual suspects: Iron Maiden, Yes, Hawkwind, Molly Hatchet. But these albums all came out years…nay, decades…ago. [Read it all...] Four 2010 Chesley Award finalists. Art by John Picacio. Clockwise from top left: DROOD; AGE OF MISRULE: WORLD'S END; 'SALEM'S LOT; and ASIMOV'S (September 2009 Cover). Good news here — I’m nominated for four 2010 Chesley Awards! Grateful, honored and thrilled. Congrats to all fellow nominees! Wow, when I look at the ballot, [Read it all...] |
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